Shadow Avenue had always seemed like such a quiet street during the day, and Lionel was just a lonely boy finding his place in a dull world. But after a chance encounter on a cold autumn evening, his dreary days have taken a turn for the bizarre. Now his nights are filled with all manner of monsters, and he's become intrigued by the creatures lurking in the dark. (eventual m/m)

What would you do to see your family again? Travel to a planet that's only use is as a hell for its inhabitants? Keep an insane ex-assassin as your only companion? Risk your sanity, your life and the exposure of your darkest secrets? Or the real question: "Would you kill for them, darling?"

People don't really go missing in small towns, but this one is an exception. Now and again for a day, a week, a month, then they show up again. Perfectly unharmed, some might even say better, brighter, happier. They're wrong.